C.C. Wharram
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C.C. Wharram

Director, Center for the Humanities Office: 3010 - Coleman Hall
Email: ccwharram@eiu.edu

INTRODUCTION

Fall 2022 Office Hours: Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays 12:00-1:30 p.m.


My research interests include translation studies, Romantic and Gothic literature, and the intersections between literature, philosophy, and science in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I direct The Center for the Humanities and coordinate the Health & Medical Humanities minor program at EIU. My recent essays explore the intersections of biopolitics and medical history (in Transforming Contagion, Rutgers UP 2018), and humanism, translation, and the nonhuman (in Educational Theory in October 2014). I edited a special volume on “Teaching Romantic Translation(s)” for Romantic Circle Pedagogies (July 2014).

My writing on Romanticism and/or translation has appeared in Germanic Review, Gothic Studies, Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, and the collections Translations of Romantic Texts and Staël's Philosophy of the Passions.  I was selected to participate in the NEH Summer Institute “The Centrality of the Translation to the Humanities: New Interdisciplinary Scholarship” (2013), and am currently finishing a book manuscript on the role of translation theory and practice in Romantic movements. My translation and scholarly edition of Goethe's The Passion of Young Werther is under contract with Broadview Press.

Pronouns:

To address the issues of preferred-gender pronouns (PGPs), I cite (with appropriate changes) an editorial by undergraduate student Christina M. Xiao: "I personally take any pronouns. But people by and large are uncomfortable with that idea, even though 'any' literally means you can’t get it wrong. So I often need to qualify my PGPs as 'any pronouns — people generally use [he/his],' since I have a [man’s] body and a [man’s] face and I know people are most comfortable using [he/his] to refer to me. As you might imagine, that’s a little long to fit on the end of my display name in Zoom."